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Sex Education and Teen Pregnancy

            The United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the industrialized world. Research studies across the country are showing that properly educating teens about their bodies and being responsible and smart when it comes to decisions about sex is leading to reduce teen pregnancy numbers. Focusing on certain matters that influence young teens to have sex should be looked into in every health class. Students need know how easy one mistake can change their lives. If every state in the U.S. developed and implemented comprehensive, medically-accurate and culturally-diverse sex education in schools along with abstinence programs, unplanned teenage pregnancy could be all but eliminated in the United States.
             Some groups argue that sex education encourages sexual behavior in young people, while removing all focus on moral values and abstinence. "Some opponents of sex education and condom availability programs argue that these programs violate the right of parents to educate their children about moral behavior and religious values." "Parents worry that sex education and condom availability encourage an increase in teenage sex" ("Majaka") While these statements were taken from an article about Zimbabwe, it is typical of all opponents' positions worldwide that sex education only encourages sex among teens. Thousands of teens have either considered becoming sexually active or are already having sex. Not properly educating them about safe-sex and about facts vs. myths will guarantee not only higher pregnancy rates, but also higher STD rates.
             Teens these days need comprehensive and medically accurate sex education if they are to make better, more informed decisions about becoming sexually active. "More than 8 in 10 (82%) say they are not at all confused about how to prevent pregnancy, but four in ten (42%) don't know that it's possible for a girl to get pregnant during her period" (TNC).


Essays Related to Sex Education and Teen Pregnancy

1. Pro Side For Sex Ed In Schools

Teen Pregnancy statistics are startling. ... (National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy ) C. ... (National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy ) II. ... In a comprehensive review of sexual education studies, Douglas Kirby, Ph.D. board member at the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, reports that the evidence shows overwhelmingly that sex ed does not hasten the onset of sex, increase the frequency or number of partners. ... Clearly our teens need information to help protect themselves against pregnancy and disease and comprehensive Sexuality Education programs provide it....

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2. Teen Pregnancy

TEEN PREGNANCY Sex. ... Now think about pregnancy. ... In your mind, you know that having sex can lead to pregnancy. ... The problems become even greater when you do not admit that having sex can cause and unwanted pregnancy. ... Mary Calderone, president of the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), has spent years helping people understand their sexual nature. ...

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3. teen pregnancy

Teen Pregnancy How to prevent teen pregnancy has been a question for many years now. ... There are also other helpful ways to help prevent teen pregnancy, such as sex education and birth control. ... Abstaining from sex and learning more about sex are good ways to assure your knowledge and decrease teen pregnancy. ... Sex education is of much importance to the teenage generation. ... Teenagers need to take responsibility and remember to keep safe, because there are various ways to prevent teen pregnancy, for example abstinence, sex education, and various types of birth control. ...

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4. Teen Pregnancy

I chose to do my controversial essay on teen pregnancy. ... Why are teen pregnancy rates rising in the United States? Som people say that sex education classes in school are not teaching enough information about teen pregnancy and how to prevent it. Sex education classes are failing. ... I don't believe that sex education has failed at all. ...

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5. Teen Pregnancy

Teen Pregnancy Teen pregnancy is always unexpected, and can often ruin a young girl or boy's life. ... During Sex Education in schools, abstinence has been taught, whereas those who choose to participate in sex should be properly taught the right methods of using condoms and birth control. ... So for those teens who do participate in having sex, have not been highly educated on safe sex, and the results often end in pregnancy. ... There are many solutions in solving teen pregnancy, but the biggest help in lowering teen pregnancy is going to need to come from the education that teens r...

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6. Teen Pregnancy

Purpose Statement: Today I am going to talk to you about Teen Pregnancy. ... There are many influences on teen pregnancy in today's society. 1.According to the book Teen Pregnancy and Parenting: a. ... It was said in the book Teen Pregnancy: Why Are Kids Having Babies? ... Abstinence-until-marriage education is when students are instructed to postpone sex until marriage, and safe sex is not discussed. ... The program would get the $50 million dollars specially earmarked each year for sex education programs that followed abstinence-only curriculum guidelines. ...

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7. Teen Pregnancy

Teen Pregnancy Teenage pregnancy is a major concern in today's society; there are many ways to prevent teenage pregnancy, many decisions you will have to make, and many challenges you will face. ... By the age of nineteen, eighty percent of teen have had sex a least on time (Teen Sex and Pregnancy). ... Studies show, only one out of five teenagers are abstinent throughout there entire teenage years (Teen Sex and Pregnancy). Studies also show that twenty-five percent of fifteen year old have had sex, about fifty-five percent of seventeen year old have had sex and eighty percent of ninet...

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8. The Ineffectiveness of Abstinence Programs

The United States that has the highest teen pregnancy rate of any first world country and approximately 615,000 teen girls will become pregnant this year (Sex Education, 2015). ... Results showed that teaching about contraception was not associated with increased risk of sexual activity, but teens who received comprehensive sex education had a lower risk of pregnancy than those who received abstinence-only or no sex education (Kohler, 2008). Researchers also found that receiving information about birth control in formal sex education was associated with a 50% lower risk of teen pregnancy when...

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9. Teenagers and Pregnancy: A Social Issue

However, the facts are obvious-teenaged females are highly influenced by many social issues, but those with the lack of strong parental guidance, sex education, and positive mass media are more likely to have a premarital pregnancy.  ... Therefore, the article shows the effects that lack of parental guidance, sex education, and mass media has on teenage pregnancy, and how it relates teenage pregnancy to foster homes.  ... Even the federal government has found teenage pregnancy to be a social issue in which lack of parental guidance, sex education, and positive media has been recognized. .....

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